“I was trying to establish myself in the big leagues and trying to find ways to stick. If my team won the games that I pitched, then I was going to probably stick around and not go up and down on the option train.”

American baseball pitcher

Max Fried is an American professional baseball pitcher, active in Major League Baseball. He made his MLB debut with the Atlanta Braves in 2017 and later pitched for the New York Yankees. A left-handed starter, Fried is known for his work on the mound at the highest level of the sport. The available facts place him in the modern era of American baseball, with his career marked by his debut in 2017 and his move to the Yankees.